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| READING TO INSPIRE SUSTAINABILITY AND CHANGING THE WORLD | ||||
These books and publications have inspired or enlightened me. I've highlighted my absolute favourites |
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| Author | Title | Year | Subject | |
| Chomsky, Noam | Failed States - The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy | 2006 | A well-substantiated argument that the current US system represents a 'failed state' & the hurdles that poses for international democratic progress | |
| Diamond, Jared | Collapse - How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed | 2006 | How environmental degradation contributes to the collapse of past and present societies | |
| Dobson, Andrew | Green Political Thought | 2007 | An accessible text on the political ideology of ecologism, what that means, and how it could become a reality. | |
| Flannery, Tim | The Weather Makers | 2006 | Climate change evidence and impacts | |
| Gladwell, Malcolm | The Tipping Point | 2000 | Creating social 'epidemics' of new ideas. A guide to starting real change. | |
| Harvey, David | A Brief History of Neoliberalism | 2006 | A thorough and thoroughly frustrating history of neo-liberism ideology, the inconsistencies in both theory and practice, and the resulting rise in social inequalities. | |
| Klein, Naomi | The Shock Doctrine | 2008 | Why a few people continue to profit at the expense of everyone else through the privatisation of everything. A clear and shocking history of the neo-liberal economic paradigm. No conspiracy theory here, just a blunt telling of how things are and how they must change if social, let alone environmental, sustainability is ever to be achieved. | |
| Kunstler, James | The Long Emergency - Surviving the Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century | 2006 | The realities of peak oil, the risks it poses, and analysis of alternative energy options. | |
| Perkins, John | The Secret History of the American Empire: The truth about economic hit men, jackals, and how to change the world | 2008 | An excellent sequel that gives the inside story to the 'Corporatocracy' so clearly described by Naomi Klein. But it is satisfying to read the thoughts of someone who has come from the inside of that system and is trying to now push for a sustainable and equitable world | |
| Perkins, John | Confessions of an Economic Hitman | 2004 | Inside view of how flawed economics has been used to oppress international development. | |
| Sen, Amartya | Development as Freedom | I'm still working on this one, but an essential new philosphy of what development was always meant to be about. | ||
| UN Environment Programme | Global Environment Outlook - Summary for Decision Makers | 2007 | Latest UN assessment of the global environment, solid evidence of the urgent need for change. | |